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Hey Folks,
It probably won't be printed, but here's what I sent the Dispatch letter editor - and eleven other people at Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper - in response to fascist mouthpiece Michael Barone.
- Uke Man
To the Editor,
I was totally taken by surprise as I began Michael Barone’s column in the Tuesday Dispatch. The next emotion was rage.
How dare Barone declare that in “our war” we “face enemies,” “covert” enemies” “in large numbers in our midst”! This is blatant McCarthyism!!
He clearly compares anyone who is critical of any American mistake, misdeed, or crime to the “overt”terrorists; and just as clearly claims they are against America; warning that they are “harder to identify” – implying that they are harder to “fight.”
He describes a conspiracy of devious anti-Americanism spawned and nurtured by “ideas that have been transmitted over a long generation by the elites who run our universities and our schools, and who dominate our mainstream media.” This is blatant McCarthyism!!
At the same time, his argument is filled with nonsense. Is it “our” war, when the majority of people oppose it? Are school teachers “elite”? The entire piece is rampant with distortions, stereotypes,falsehoods, subtle fear mongering, half-truths, and scapegoating.
This is the very kind of propaganda McCarthy spewed at his critics! It is a shade of the libel Hitler spread against the Jews!
Is no one awake at the Dispatch editor’s desk? Or does the paper endorse Barone’s style of “journalism”? In any case, the Dispatch bears some responsibility for any ugly consequences growing out of Barone’s sick thesis.
Yours - Tom Harker
It probably won't be printed, but here's what I sent the Dispatch letter editor - and eleven other people at Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper - in response to fascist mouthpiece Michael Barone.
- Uke Man
To the Editor,
I was totally taken by surprise as I began Michael Barone’s column in the Tuesday Dispatch. The next emotion was rage.
How dare Barone declare that in “our war” we “face enemies,” “covert” enemies” “in large numbers in our midst”! This is blatant McCarthyism!!
He clearly compares anyone who is critical of any American mistake, misdeed, or crime to the “overt”terrorists; and just as clearly claims they are against America; warning that they are “harder to identify” – implying that they are harder to “fight.”
He describes a conspiracy of devious anti-Americanism spawned and nurtured by “ideas that have been transmitted over a long generation by the elites who run our universities and our schools, and who dominate our mainstream media.” This is blatant McCarthyism!!
At the same time, his argument is filled with nonsense. Is it “our” war, when the majority of people oppose it? Are school teachers “elite”? The entire piece is rampant with distortions, stereotypes,falsehoods, subtle fear mongering, half-truths, and scapegoating.
This is the very kind of propaganda McCarthy spewed at his critics! It is a shade of the libel Hitler spread against the Jews!
Is no one awake at the Dispatch editor’s desk? Or does the paper endorse Barone’s style of “journalism”? In any case, the Dispatch bears some responsibility for any ugly consequences growing out of Barone’s sick thesis.
Yours - Tom Harker
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